Lewis' Lucid Locution

Again, such nourishing comments. Melissa shared this tremendous quote by C.S. Lewis from The Four Loves:

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart willcertainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keepingit intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap itcarefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lockit up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket —safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it willbecome unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, orat least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heavenwhere you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of loveis Hell.

I am constantly flabbergasted at Lewis' word-wizardry. Thank you God, for your servant C.S. Lewis. Help me to gaze only briefly at his artistry, then walk away, and do what he says.